Editing Evansville, Indiana (section)

===Museums===
[[Angel Mounds|Angel Mounds State Park]] is nationally recognized as one of the best preserved prehistoric [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] sites in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Angel Mounds State Historic Site |publisher=Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau |url=http://www.evansvillecvb.org/visitor-information/attractions-detail.tpl?ID=4 |access-date=2006-11-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006110118/http://www.evansvillecvb.org/visitor-information/attractions-detail.tpl?ID=4 |archive-date=2006-10-06 }}</ref> From AD 1100 to 1450, a town near this site was home to people of the middle Mississippian culture. Several thousand people lived in this town protected by a stockade made of wattle and daub. Because Angel Mounds was a [[chiefdom]] (the home of the chief), it was the regional center of a large community.

The [[Children's Museum of Evansville]] opened its doors to the public in September 2006.<ref>{{cite web | title=Koch Family Children's Museum of Evansville Website | url=http://www.cmoekids.org | access-date=2006-11-14}}</ref> The museum is the result of two years of planning and was constructed in the historic Central Library downtown. The [[Art Deco]] building is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. The museum has three floors of interactive exhibits and galleries.

The Evansville African American Museum was established to continually develop a resource and cultural center to collect, preserve, and educate the public on the history and traditions of African American families, organizations, and communities. The museum is in the last remaining building of Lincoln Gardens, the second federal housing project created under the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in 1938.

The [[Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science]] is home to one of southern Indiana's most established and significant cultural centers. It holds the Koch Planetarium, the oldest in Indiana.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Koch Planetarium | publisher=The Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science | url=http://www.emuseum.org/planetarium.html | access-date=2006-11-14 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210180811/http://www.emuseum.org/planetarium.html | archive-date=2007-02-10 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Also on the campus is the Evansville Museum Transportation Center, which features transportation in southern Indiana from the latter part of the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century.

The [[Reitz Home Museum]] is Evansville's only Victorian House Museum. It is noted as one of the country's finest examples of [[Second French Empire|second French empire]] architecture. It was placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1973.

In October 2005, the {{USS|LST-325}} moored in Evansville and was turned into a museum (USS LST Ship Memorial) in recognition of the city's war effort. During [[World War II]], Evansville produced 167 [[tank landing ship|LSTs]] (and 35 other craft), making it the largest inland producer of LSTs in the nation. The USS ''LST-325'' is the last navigable [[tank landing ship]] in operation.<ref>{{cite web | title=LST 325 | work=[[Evansville Courier & Press]] | url=http://web.courierpress.com/LST/ | access-date=2006-11-14 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029111248/http://web.courierpress.com/LST/ | archive-date=2006-10-29 }}</ref>

The [[Evansville Wartime Museum]] was opened on the weekend of Memorial Day in 2017. The Museum features exhibits commemorating Evansville's role in the Allied war effort during World War II and other conflicts. These exhibits include the Evansville built P-47 Thunderbolt fighter  ‘Hoosier Spirit II’, the operational 1943 Sherman tank ‘Rosie’s Revenge’, other military vehicles and wartime displays.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Loesch|first1=Sarah|title=Evansville Wartime Museum to open for public|url=http://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2017/05/23/evansville-wartime-museum-open-public/339565001/|access-date=31 January 2018|work=Evansville Courier & Press|ref=ecpwartimemuseum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524003220/http://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2017/05/23/evansville-wartime-museum-open-public/339565001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=|archive-date=24 May 2017}}</ref>